[Sirius Lee]

Ah, remember how all the economic and financial geniuses were flapping their mouths on about how the U.S. was doomed and the BRICs were the future?

You''d have to be an idiot to have anything to do with Brazil. You can plop a people on the richest resources on the planet, but if the people are useless the resources will just sit there either being walked upon or utilized to catch turds. That's Brazil.

[Roccus]

Ah, remember how all the economic and financial geniuses were flapping their mouths on about how the U.S. was doomed and the BRICs were the future?

I remember a time on Wall Street when having "MBA" after your name meant you had approved loans to Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Only problem with those loans was that although the interest rate was nice and high, the countries couldn't repay them.